Originally Posted by
deniah
are we throwing out these 90-99% as a percentage of leisure travelers? or all flyers?
take a swiss a330: 22% of the seats are premium. say J is at 70% capacity and F is at 50%.... its still a 15% that sit in the nice chairs .
not that exclusive of a group. dont think its reserved for the creme de la creme.
I might revise it to say that 95+% of
paid tickets are in a some sort of economy fare bucket.
The F/J cabins are then filled with...
- The 5% who buy in one of the business class fare buckets, most often with a corporate discount
- A tiny, almost immeasurable fraction of a percent who buy a true F fare bucket
- FF upgraders
- Nonrevs
- Award users
- People on YUP/QUP/HUP type fares
- Etc.
Plus there is a sizable percentage of commercial airliners in the air with an all-Y configuration to begin with.
Now that I think about it, it might only be 2 or 3 percent on a paid premium cabin ticket.